Sir, you're not only the most observant forum member here, you are the most intelligent too. Very astute !!! I'm impressed by your explanation. Maybe they would have understood me better if I would have compared it to real estate. It's all about location, location, location.

Here's another hint about the mentality and ignorance about music of the people running and managing things around here. Every Spring we have advertisement for hundreds of miles for a weekend "Jazz Festival." So this woman comes here with three guitar players a drummer and bass player from Denver, she screams that three chord rocking shuffle blues all night, is the big hit of the weekend, and everyone thinks this is a great Jazz Band ! I'm not joking, exaggerating or lying. Thank you sir for explaining this in a way that North Eastern Yankees can understand the situation out here.

How in the hell they won the war is beyond human comprehension. It has to be the money. There is no other explanation. They had more money, because they certainly weren't the sharpest knife in the drawer by a long shot. Ha ha ha !

Can you imagine driving 200-300 miles to a Jazz Festival and you hear a woman screaming 3 chord blues, who's the queen of the Jazz show. I called the producers of the event and told them If I drove 200 miles to hear blues that was advertise as Jazz I'd be a very unhappy camper. I suggested they might advertise the event as a music or blues festival. Guess what she said? She said, "Jazz Festival" has a better ring to it and draws more people." And that folks is what you're dealing with. So all you folks like Chas and Russ, stay away from here. You will starve to death.